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STORAGE BUILDING Filed April 29, 1929 2 SheetsSheet l INVENTCIR OHARLES.GORDONMITCHEL1 y 1931. c. G. MITCHELL 1,806,699

STORAGE BUILDING Filed April 29. 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVE NTOR FI 3 caAnLzssonmmcum Patented May 26, 1931 CHARLES GORDON MITCHELL, OF MONTREALQQUEBEC, CANADA STORAGE BUILDING Application filed April 29, 1929. Serial No. 359,069.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in storage buildings and particularly to buildings for storing automobiles and the like and the object of the in- 5 vention is to-provide a building the floors of which may be conveniently arranged for storing commercial vehicles, trucks, and pleasure cars.

Another object is to provide a storage building or garage which may be conveniently changed from a garage to a light manufacturing building, an office building or warehouse or vice versa with the minimum amount of expense.

A further object is to provide a building which will have each individual floor area on one and the same level throughout the area of the building, for car storage or other purposes, thus obtaining more floor area at each elevation than can be provided by any other building of this class at present in use for a similar purpose.

A. still further object is to provide a storage building where the maximum cubic contents thereof are utilized for the storage of cars, trucks and the like. a

A still further object is to provide a build ing which will have means which will faoilitate the movement ofthe cars between and on the floors.

According to my invention, I provide a buildinghaving a plurality of main floors and mezzanine fioors between the main floors. The'main and mezzanine floors extend on their respective levels to occupy such storage area as maybe required. They are also arranged to maintain a full storey height within the traflic well for the passage of trucks to the higher levels. External to the traffic well, the mezzanine and the main floors may extend to the sides of the building. The space also enclosed between the ramps and the corridors contains parts of the main and mezzanine floors and may be used for storing cars, or trucks, as may be required.

In the accompanying drawings which' illustrate one form of my invention; 71

v Figure 1 is a plan view of one of the main floors.

Figure 2 is a plan view of one of the intermediate floors.

Figure 3 is a sectional side elevation taken on the line 3-3 Figure 1.

- Figure 4 is a sectional side elevation taken on the line &4; Figure 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, an L-shaped building is shown, the outer walls of which are designated 11, 12,13. 14, 15 and 16. The building is provided with a plurality of main floors designated 17M and intermediate or mezzanine floors 18A. Ramps'19 extend upwardly from the main floors 17M to the intermediate floors 18A, while ramps 20 extend upwardly from the intermediate floors to the main floors. The ramps 19 are spaced from one another vertically a distance equal the height between the main floors and run substantially parallelto one another. The ramps 20are spaced horizontally from the ramps 19. The ramps 20 run parallel to one another and are vertically spaced. At each floor level, the rampsv 19 and 20are (connected by a corridor B the height of which is equal tothe height between two main floors or the height between two mezzanine floors. It will be seen that in Figure 2, I have shown a chain dotted X which shows the space necessary for the spiral ascent or descent of a car within the building be tween the floors. There is a space B enclosed betweenthe adjacent edges of the-ramps and the adjacent edges of the corridors inplan which may be conveniently used on each of the floors for the storage of pleasure cars as the height between the floors is equal to the distance between a main floor and a mezzanine floor. Should it be desired that trucks be stored on the main floor at any section thereof, the corresponding section of the intermediate floor above may be left out or removed.

For example, I have shown in Figure 2 that a'portion of the intermediate floor18a located between the wall 12 and the adjacent ramp 19 is omitted to provide on the section 21 of the underlying main floor 17m parking space of sulficient heightfor the storage of trucks. and large vans. In this figure, it will benoted that a guardrail 22 extends from the wall 11 to a point in proximity to the wall 13 and serves as a safety device to prevent cars being moved beyond the edge of the ramp 19 in the direction of the gap formed by the omitted wall portion of the floor 18a. On referring to Figure 1, it will be noted that a guard rail 23 extends from the wall 11 to the adjacent edge of the corridor B at the side of the ramp 20 located nearest the wall 14. A similar guard rail 25 extends between the wall 11 and the corridor B at the sideof ramp 19 located nearest the wall 12. From a study of Figure 1, it will be noted that there is a gap in the floor 17m bounded by the wall 11, the parking space B and the guard rails 23 and 25 which extend from the wall 11 to the adjacent ends of the ramps 19 and 20. By reason of this gap parking space for trucks and large vans is provided on the section 27 ot' the underlying intermediate floor 18a.

The removal of the floor sections shown are for illustrative purposes only and it will be readily understood that all or any part of any of the floor may be omitted to allow for the storage of trucks on the floor immediately below the removed section.

It will be seen that the construction of the building allows a flexibility in design to accommodate cars or trucks. Trucks require greater headroom than passenger cars and the space between any intermediate floor and the adjacent main floor or vice versa is made of a height to accommodate the low headroom car, or half a storey height. To accommodate trucks on any part of any floor, the corresponding part of the fioor immediately above is left out so that a full storey height is obtained for the storage of the vehicles which are of greater height than the average passenger car. It will also be seen that the space enclosed by the adjacent edges of the ramps and the corridors is of half storey height to accommodate passenger cars.

If we make a half storey height equal approximately to the average height of an office, then said building may be quickly converted into an oflice building, light manufacturing building, or a building for storing merchandise with the least amount of ex pense for alterations.

By making a half storey height equal to the minimum height required to store passenger cars, the building can be made to accommodate more passenger cars than it is possible to store when the distance between each floor is at such a height that trucks may be stored. It is by making the half stories and leaving out parts of the flooring that accommodation for both trucks and passenger cars can be made on the same floor.

The building is very easily converted from a garage into an oflice, or light manufacturing building by filling in the floors, so that they extend between the internal walls of the building, and the ramp section in such case may be used as a light well.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a storage building, a plurality of main floors positioned at one storey height above another, an intermediate floor between each pair of main floors, parts of the intermediate floor being removed to allow for the storage of trucks on the main floor below and ramps forming a communication between the floors.

2. In a storage building, a plurality of main floors positioned at one storey height above one another, said floors extending from wall to wall of the building, an inter mediate floor between each pair of main floors, ramps extending between the said floors, the headroom of the ramps being equal to one storey and corridors one storey in height between the top of one ramp and the bottom of the next ramp on each floor.

3. In a storage building, a plurality of main floors superimposed in a building at one storey heights, a plurality of intermediate floors, one between each pair of main floors, upwardly extending ramps connecting the main floors with the intermediate floor, a second set of ramps spaced from the first set and extending upwardly forming a communication between each intermediate floor and the main floor above it, said ramps having a headroom of one storey height and corridors between the top of one ramp and the bottom of another ramp on the same floor, said corridors having a headroom of one storey height.

4. In a storage building, a plurality of main floors extending from wall to wall of the building, and positioned at one storey heights, a plurality of intermediate floors, one betweeneach pair of main floors and extending from wall to wall of the building, a plurality of superimposed ramps running upwardly and parallel to one another at one storey heights forming a communication between each main floor and the intermediate floor thereabove, a second plurality of upwardly extending parallel ramps spaced from one another at one storey heights and forming a communication between each intermediate floor and the main floor thereabove, and corridors on each floor having a headroom one storey in height and forming a passageway between the top of one ramp and the bottom of the other ramp on the same floor.

5. A building according to claim 4 in which parts of the intermediate fioor are left out to allow for the storage of trucks on the main floor therebelow.

6. A building according to claim 4- in which parts of the main floor are left out to allow for the storage of trucks on the intermediate floor beneath.

7. A building according to claim 4 in which parts of the main floors and the intermediate floors are left out to allow for the storage of vehicles requiring a full storey height for headroom clearance.

8. In a storage building, a plurality of main floors extending between the walls of the building and spaced vertically'from one another at one storey heights, a plurality of intermediate floors, one being positioned midway between each pair of main floors, a plurality of superimposed ramps extending between each main floor and the intermediate floor thereabove, said ramps being parallel to one another having a headroom equal to one storey, a second plurality of superimposed parallel ramps spaced from the first set and forming a communication between each intermediate floor and the main floor above, said ramps being spaced vertically from one another at one storey heights, parts of the floors being left out for storing trucks requiring one storey headroom, corridors one storey in height connecting the ramps on the same floor, the ramps and the corridors enclosing a space capable of being used as a storage space for cars requiring only one half storey headroom for clearance.

9. A storage building comprising a series of floors extending between the enclosing Walls of the building and spaced one above the other at half story levels, each floor having a portion thereof omitted to form a corridor of full story height on the floor below, the corridor formed by the omission of a por tion of the floor located at one level being horizontally offset with reference to the corridors formed by omission of portions of the floors located above and below said first mentioned floor, ramps of full story height connecting the corridor of each floor level with the corridor of the floor level immediately above and with the corridor on the floor level immediately below, one or more of said floors having a further portion thereof omitted to provide full story parking space on the underlying floor communicating with the full story corridor serving said floor. I

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. 7

CHARLES GORDON MITCHELL. 

